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Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 07/10/2026

Canada’s ban on foreigners buying homes will expire on Jan. 1, 2027, and it looks like there is serious consideration of not renewing it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Canada Weighs Future of Foreign Homebuyer Ban Before Expiry

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne says the federal government is mulling its options ahead of the expiry of Canada’s foreign homebuyers ban at the end of the year.

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Is there an alternative pipeline for conservative judicial candidates?

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Incoming NCPC chair Mark Paoletta wrote an op-ed for The Federalist registering his view on Trump's Memorial Circle arch — "I applaud President Trump’s historic efforts to build a monumental arch at Memorial Circle, and will vote to approve this project" — so I think we can skip that hearing

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Plus Donald Trump regrets going along with the Federalist Society project (or at least, he called Leonard Leo a "sleazebag" last year)

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A lot of the commentary on a potential Supreme Court retirement seems to be based on a pre-Dobbs/pre-Trump mindset. On the right, the stakes really aren't as high any more. There is no Roe to overturn. They have a 6-3 court. And Trump prefers Alito & Thomas to the justices he himself appointed.

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nationwide's pet insurance policy changed from covering 70% of the cat's monthly prescription pet food costs to covering $100 total per year. Is there a Senate candidate I can yell at over this

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is a huge scandal that I don't think the public will properly appreciate until we get a colorful story about a provider fraudulently billing outpatient mental health services — but once that reporting happens, expect to hear about this from Trump capitalcommonsense.com/p/why-is-dcs...

capitalcommonsense.com

Why Is DC’s Medicaid Program So Expensive?

A Look at How the District Uses Federal Health Care Funding

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Stan Veuger @stanveuger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In the third part of my series for Capital Commonsense on DC's federal grants I look at healthcare grants, which basically (95%) means Medicaid. DC has the most expensive Medicaid program (per resident) in the country. Compared to the expansion states we spend almost twice as much.

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Look I think "these guys should study the humanities!!" is naïve and ignorant and all but when they keep coming out with these dorm room bs session–level thoughts you can see why people have questions about their educational attainments

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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 05/10/2026

kristi noem used DHS money to overpay for a bunch of private jets in her last hours at the agency, but the real kicker? one of the planes seems to have come with an ed ruscha print. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

Four pictures showing the "lavish" interior of a private jet, complete with a bar, private bedroom, stone-walled showers, and a dining table with a TV.

Zoom in behind the dining table, that looks like a slightly miscolored Ed Ruscha print. The words "JET BABY" in white text overtop a snowy mountain.

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113642 @justdanthistime.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Man Who Shot Liberty Bibberty

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Eritrea says it is severing all diplomatic ties with Ethiopia.

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm squishy when it comes to dogs, I sympathize with the supporters here and waffled over this bill when it was first introduced. But give it just a moment's thought and it seems obvious to me: Landlords who say small dogs are OK will just say no dogs are OK. www.wusa9.com/article/life...

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The president doesn't have any power to stop elections. I know that's simplistic but beyond that Republicans are all running races they want to win, they want to have elections too

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I know I’m pedantic about this, but: The Cornell Daily Sun is a corporation. It’s under corporate control. Your problem with other news media isn’t their corporate status.

ENTITY NAME:THE CORNELL DAILY SUN
DOS ID:26485
FOREIGN LEGAL NAME:
FICTITIOUS NAME:
ENTITY TYPE:DOMESTIC BUSINESS CORPORATION
DURATION DATE/LATEST DATE OF DISSOLUTION:
SECTIONOF LAW: -
ENTITY STATUS:ACTIVE
DATE OF INITIAL DOS FILING:03/25/1905
REASON FOR STATUS:
EFFECTIVE DATE INITIAL FILING:03/25/1905
INACTIVE DATE:
FOREIGN FORMATION DATE:
STATEMENT STATUS:PAST DUE

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean that rightwing posters in Argentina routinely add "NOLSALP" to tweets etc as shorthand. Like MAGA or TCOT from back in the day

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Did y'all know that in Argentina under Milei there's a rightwing hashtag meme about the media: NOLSALP, which stands for No odiamos lo suficiente a los periodistas ("we don't hate the media enough")

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Credit where it's due I suppose, X removed the video of the naked man masturbating at the entrance of my local park. Not sure I can scrub my eyes as easily

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

seems pretty messed up to record advertise and geolocate frequent acts of public indecency and that's just fine

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The path on the dog's favorite walking route has been closed since the storm. hopped on X the Everything App to search for "Kingman Island" to see if there were any updates Very second result was a video of a man masturbating at the entrance of the park. Advertising it as his favorite spot

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He should announce it from the grounds of the Foxconn plant in Wisconsin

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And those are the kind of details that you can only get from hearing the voice of the person who answers the phone.

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I dragooned Yglesias into it as an adult even. He accused me of playing Mercantalist

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

sloppiest too, just an unacceptable level of penalties

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Toughest, most resilient Longhorns squad since ... 2009? The last four plays of that scoring drive were runs. And remember they're doing this without Coleman and Smothers, who probably are their top weapons.

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Average random spot in New Orleans has more aura than entire neighborhoods on the East Coast

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's time for 'p(doom) or MF DOOM'. As always, you'll be asked to decide whether a phrase is a lyric from rapper MF DOOM, or the mad ramblings of a Rationalist thinkfluencer. Today's first question: Who defined 'super-villain' as 'One who is well-skilled in destruction, as well as building'?

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

PETER SAGAL: You know p(doom)... but what do you know about doom? For our next segment, we're going to ask you about Scandinavian drone metal bands. Identify three songs correctly and you can win one of our hosts on a caller's voicemail! Bill, sing the first song BILL: [throbbing guttural screams]

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Marc Masters @marcissist.bsky.social has a lot of good things to say about this book. That's good enough for me www.vulture.com/article/beck...

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